Help Center

Welcome to Honeyfund's Help Center! Below you'll find our most frequently asked questions and their answers. If you don't find an answer to your question here, please contact us and we will respond as soon as possible.

Signing Up & Publishing a Registry

Receiving Payments

Giving a Gift

Signing Up & Publishing a Registry

How much does it cost? It's free!

Honeyfund is totally free! There are no transaction fees for couples or gift givers and no setup fees. This is possible because gift givers are directed to send the money to YOU, by cash or check. We don't handle any gift money here at Honeyfund.

In addition to the free service, there are two upgrade options:

1. You may upgrade to Honeyfund Premium for a one-time charge of $39 USD. This includes your choice of design templates, a photo slideshow of you, photos next to your registry items, and no ads on your registry.

2. Accept online payments from your gift givers using Honeyfund's credit card system (powered by WePay, US only), or via your own premier or business PayPal account. Honeyfund/WePay fees are 2.8% + $0.30 and Paypal fees are 2.9% + $0.30 (US)/transaction. Credit card payments are available with both Free and Premium Honeyfund accounts. Fees are paid by the couple, never the guest.

How does Honeyfund work?

With Honeyfund, you make your own travel arrangements and then receive monetary gifts from your guests to help you pay for the costs of travel.

For more about how Honeyfund works, see our Tour.

How do I know that Honeyfund is safe for me and my guests?

Rest assured all personal info and gift money is safe and secure. Your money travels directly from gift givers to you, either offline or via your own WePay or PayPal account, so we don't handle money here at Honeyfund. Honeyfund's secure servers keep your private info safe, and personal info is never sold, rented or shared.

Honeyfund has also been awarded an A grade by Better Business Bureau's Online Reliability program.

What countries does Honeyfund support?

Honeyfund is available to residents of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the U.K., the U.S. and most of Europe. If you live outside these countries and would like to use Honeyfund, please contact us.

Can I see Honeyfund's purchase process (what my guests will see)?

Yes! Please create a free account and then you can try the Give a Gift process from your Guest View page. You can walk through step-by-step what your guests will experience when they purchase a Honeyfund gift.

I created a Honeyfund account and set up my registry, why doesn't it show up in the search results?

We designed Honeyfund to protect your registry until you are ready for guests to find it. When your registry is ready, you must publish it, which then makes it available via the Give a Gift search. Click the Publish your Honeyfund link follow the instructions.

How do I "unpublish" my registry to remove it from public access?

Your Honeyfund registry will remain active for one year after your wedding date. We do this because many couples continue to receive gifts even after their wedding and honeymoon. If you'd like to unpublish your registry to remove it from public access, please contact Honeyfund.

We can also exclude your page from search engine crawling, just contact Honeyfund.

Why has my account been disabled?

Your Honeyfund account will be disabled if your e-mail address is invalid or if it was not confirmed within eight weeks of opening the account. Accounts can also be closed on the Edit > Profile tab, or if it has been more than one year since your wedding date. Please contact us to reinstate the account.

How can I close my account?

You can close your account from the Settings tab when editing your Honeyfund.

Receiving Payments

How does Honeyfund's credit card processing work?

Since Honeyfund launched in 2006, we've searched high and low for a payment system that is secure, affordable, and easy to use. And now, it's here!

  • Guests pay quickly and easily, all within Honeyfund's website.
  • You pay just 2.8% + $0.30 (lowest fee on the market!)
  • Two easy steps enable credit card payments (see Payment Settings)
  • To withdraw, choose electronic transfer or paper check. No withdrawal fees!

Here's how it works:

  • You enable credit card processing, powered by WePay, in your Honeyfund Payment Settings
  • With just an e-mail address and password, your Honeyfund WePay account is created.
  • You receive an e-mail from WePay to verify your account in one easy step!
  • Once verified, withdraw funds any time via your bank account or paper check (no bank account required).
If you have questions about Honeyfund payment processing and WePay, please Contact Us.

Why was I charged a transaction fee?

In addition to Honeyfund's free offline payment options, we make it possible to receive online payments for a fee. Here are the complete fee details:

  1. Payments processed through Honeyfund's credit card system, powered by WePay, are just 2.8% + $0.30 transaction fee.
  2. Payments via your own PayPal account incur PayPal's 2.9% + $0.30 for each transaction, deducted from your gift amount. There is an additional 1% cross-border fee if the payment comes from outside your home country.
    • Most US transactions via PayPal qualify for Honeyfund's special rate of 2.85% + $0.30. In this case, the fee will appear in your PayPal account as a payment to Honeyfund. (This is how PayPal lets us share our rate discount.)

Someone gave a gift from my registry but I haven't received payment. Why?

With Honeyfund, guests select a gift, and then pay according to the options you provided (usually offline via cash or check, or online with a credit card.) Gifts are displayed on the Gifts Received page, either as Pledges (unpaid) or Gifts Received (paid). Offline gifts always remain as Pledges until you manually update the payment date.

To see which payment option your guest selected, visit the Gifts Received page. Cash or check payments will simply be given to you by the guest, offline, at which point you will manually update the payment date.

If it was a credit card purchase, please login to your PayPal account and view the History to check if the payment was indeed completed. Honeyfund usually receives a confirmation from PayPal when a transaction is complete, but not always. It is vital you check your PayPal records against your Honeyfund Gifts Received list.

If no payment was made, use our reminder e-mail to notify the guest. It's a tasteful e-mail from Honeyfund with instructions for payment. To send it, click the gift on the Gifts Received page. Then click "send reminder?" and follow the instructions.

I received a PayPal gift but my PayPal e-mail address was wrong. How do I get my gift money?

The e-mail address you enter in your Honeyfund payment settings is where your gift money is sent when a gift giver pays for your gift with a credit card. If there was a mistake and the e-mail address you gave Honeyfund is NOT the e-mail address on your PayPal account, here's what you can do:

  1. Update your Honeyfund settings immediately! (Edit > Account Settings > Payment Settings) You don't want any more money going to the wrong place.
  2. Login to the e-mail account that was incorrectly listed on Honeyfund as your PayPal e-mail address. You should have received an e-mail there with instructions for accessing your funds.
  3. Add the e-mail account that was incorrectly listed on Honeyfund to your existing PayPal account. Click here to login to PayPal and add your e-mail address. Once there, visit My Account > Profile > Email > Add.

How do I add or remove payment options for my guests?

Edit your payment settings here (Edit > Account Settings > Payment Settings). If you have more than one payment option enabled, your guests will be able to choose from those options when they select your gift.

Someone purchased a gift from my registry that I don't recognize. How do I contact the gift giver?

E-mail Honeyfund and we will contact the gift giver on your behalf to verify the gift was intended for you.

How do I issue a credit card refund?

Since online payments are sent directly to your PayPal or WePay account, Honeyfund cannot issue refunds. However if a giver requests a refund for their online payment, you can issue it following these instructions:

  • PayPal: Locate the payment in your PayPal account, then click the Details link. Follow the refund instructions there.
  • Honeyfund/WePay: Login to your WePay account, locate the gift payment, and click the Refund link. Follow the instructions there.

What can I do about the PayPal 21-day hold?

The 21-day hold program was recently developed by PayPal. It is placed on some newer Premier or Business accounts, according to PayPal's anti-fraud policies. We have a special arrangement with PayPal whereby all Honeyfund gifts are exempted from this program.

If you are having trouble accessing the Honeyfund gift funds in your PayPal account please Contact Us.

Giving a Gift

I purchased a Honeyfund gift but didn't print the certificate. How do I get back to the certificate page?

To get back to the certificate page, just click the link in your gift confirmation e-mail (check your spam folder if you didn't receive the e-mail). If you don't have it, contact Honeyfund and we can provide the link for you.

I purchased a gift from Honeyfund but I don't know if my payment went through. How do I verify my payment?

There are two ways to pay for a Honeyfund gift; 1) Offline, where you print a certifiate and give it to the couple with cash or check, or 2) Online via a third party payment processor. (Note: Honeyfund does not handle online payments, all payments are processed by a third party.)

If you paid online, you should have received an e-mail receipt. Check your e-mail for the receipt and/or your credit card activity for the charge.

If you aren't sure which payment method you chose, check your Honeyfund gift confirmation e-mail. There you will find either a receipt or payment instructions for the payment method you selected. If you don't have the Honeyfund e-mail, please check your spam folder or contact Honeyfund and we will resend it to you.

My credit card is not being accepted. What should I do?

If your card is declined please try your transaction again later. You can revisit the payment page by clicking the link in your Honeyfund Gift Confirmation e-mail. If your credit card still doesn't go through, we suggest you either send a check in the mail directly to the couple or bring cash or check to the wedding with your gift certificate. To change your payment method to cash or check, please click the link in your gift confirmation e-mail, then click the blue Change Payment Method button. Or contact us if you need help.

I gave a gift and now have changed my mind. How do I cancel my gift?

If you have NOT paid for your gift, please click the link in your gift confirmation e-mail from Honeyfund. There you can cancel the gift pledge. If you don't have the e-mail, contact Honeyfund and we can cancel the gift pledge for you.

If you HAVE already paid online or given the couple the funds, we cannot cancel the gift payment. You will need to make arrangements directly with the couple to retrieve your funds.

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